I have no intention to make the discussion as a
"security" bashing (i.e our security team), but if
anyone considered removing netcat as unreasonable, it
was also decided to remove timezone, they also asked
to remove util-linux :-), which obviously cannot be
removed. It was at that point that I decided no point
to reason with them. (This is true, I cannot believe
anyone suggest this)
Anyway, I was trying to find out whether anyone did
remove netcat and so far, for those responded, no one
seems to have removed netcat.
Thank you for letting me know that I am not the
minority.
--- François Pinard
[Bill Wilson]
The reason they decided to remove netcat is that they "found" out netcat is hacker's tool via a google search :-).
Hackers also use `ls' and `cp', you know :-) Rootkits often replace `ls', among other tools. So, you might suggest `ls' be removed as well! What I really mean here is that some common sense is needed. `netcat' is a useful tool for you, just like a flurry of others.
-- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
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